We wonder what a 1985 Doctor Who audience would make of this: the upcoming release of the soundtrack of Timelash, coming soon on CD!
This Sixth Doctor serial has always had quite a hard time of it, but honestly, I’ve seen worse. The Borad is actually really cool and there are some nice concepts; performances are generally good too, led, of course, by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. Nonetheless, a lot of people hold it up as one of the worst Doctor Who serials, so it’s rather a surprise (albeit a pleasant one) that Silva Screen Records is bringing out the soundtrack on CD.
It is, however, utterly pants that they’ve “upscaled” using terrible AI on the cover, resulting in everyone looking a bit like an Auton…
Composer, Elizabeth Parker, says:
“I wanted the music for Timelash to be true grit. I needed the score to be edgy, spiky, strident and powerful, emerging from a distinctive angular sound palette which I took huge time and effort to create, largely using the PPG Wave synth and some of its glorious gutsy sounds. I could hear the score in my head before I started composing – I knew exactly where I was going with the sound and I am immensely proud of the way it turned out – some great combinations of electronic sounds… to me it sounds pretty contemporary, even 40 years later.”
Here’s the track listing:
1 Doctor Who Opening Titles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)
2 Karfel
3 Inner Sanctum
4 Fanfare: The Maylin Renis
5 Banishment
6 How’s That Line?/Belt Up
7 Time for Another Election
8 Fanfare: The Maylin Tekker
9 The Timelash
10 Time Just Flies
11 Feminist Sting
12 The Flower of Many Faces
13 The Morlox
14 Herbert
15 The Rebels
16 1885 A.D.
17 Amulet
18 Unpleasant Journey
19 Unpleasant Journey reprise
20 Where Are You Taking Me?
21 The Edge of Oblivion
22 Wired
23 Kontron Crystals
24 Peri Incarcerated
25 Fidelity
26 Doctor, Where Are You?
27 Time Loop with Android
28 The Bandrils are Coming
29 The Borad
30 Time Loop with Borad
31 Herbert to the Rescue
32 A Brave But Foolish Thing
33 The Writing on the Wall
34 Doctor Who Closing TItles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)
35 Timelash Suite (2025 Remaster)
36 Timelash – Proto-Suite
37 Timelash Suite [B.A.S.E. processed) (2025 Remaster)
